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As well as concentrating on CHE and fulfilling their
Field duties, opportunities abound for the Andersons in
personal witnessing and ministry. Below are some of the
ways their days are filled with efforts to help people at
their point of need.
Verlin
- Many hours spent counseling neighbors, friends, church
members, and our pastors, regarding Bible truth,
finances, family life, medical advice, handling
conflict, and help with computers
- Baptizing and performing marriages for FWB pastors who
are not yet ordained
- Preaching in villages with no pastor and filling in
for pastors when they travel
- Providing a loan library of Christian books for FWB
readers
- Transporting Bibles to Bondoukou (often the only
location with Bibles available)
- Prison outreach and help with the prison garden
- Community Health Evangelism/Education/Engagement
training and mentoring with focus in Cote d'Ivoire
- Assisting fellow-missionaries in whatever way possible
Debbie
- Showing hospitality regularly to friends, pastors, and
people passing through
- Informal counseling, especially youth and women
- Team teaching when mentoring others in Disciple Making
Movement (a.k.a. DMM) Discovery Bible Studies (a.k.a.
DBS)
- Assisting in prison ministry
- Preparing Sunday School and Bible memory materials
- Assisting fellow-missionaries in whatever way possible
Cason
- Witnessing to his African friends (now American
friends)
- Formatting, translating, and correcting materials for
CHE (now Randall House Publications websites)
- Repairing many computer problems
- Creating and setting up this web site
- Teaching an English class for friends (well, helping
our grand daughter overcome deafness and speak English)
- Taking photographs for the family and ministry (of
many)
Cara
- Co-teaching Bible/English studies
- Sharing Christ by life and deed with her friends and
nurse co-workers
- Helping to find nutritious cooking options and show
hospitality
- Helping with family correspondence
Corbin
- Obeying his parents
- Showing his Muslim and Catholic friends how a
Christian boy should act
- Developing his garden-planting, yard design and husbandry
skill sets somehow led him to study to become an
electrical engineer
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